RUDNICK v. McMILLAN

Docket No. B073734.

25 Cal.App.4th 1183 (1994)

31 Cal. Rptr. 193

MARCUS RUDNICK, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. IRV McMILLAN, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

June 13, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Roy A. Hanley for Defendant and Appellant.

Carol A. Sobel and Paul L. Hoffman as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

William H. McKenzie for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GILBERT, J.

Letters written to the editor of a magazine or a newspaper are often like elaborate costume parties. Fact and opinion disguise their identities and pose as one another. Like the invitees at such affairs, the average reader is seldom deceived by the masquerade.

Here we consider a letter to the editor of a newspaper. The letter is alleged to be defamatory...

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